The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-17

TaB thirty-eighth annual convention Of
the American Medical Association is
sembled in Chicago ON the 7th. The At
tendance Of physicians and surgeons from
Ill parts of the country was Unexpectedly
large.
REUBEN DAILY, Of Indiana, formerly .
newspaper man, has been appointed steno-
grapher to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
TEE Catholic Total Abstinence Unions Of
Ohio and Indiana held conventions on the
Sth.
THE strike Of the Detroit stove holders
has been declared OF, the mems terms hay-
ing been acceded to.
CHARLES SPENCER. one Of the best known
men in Dakota, was indicted recently by
the grand jury at Pierre ON the charge Of
cattle stealing.
A LAD named Hentz died from tetanus at
Grand Crossing, near Chicago, recently.
Some two weeks ago he ran an old nail in
his foot and lockjaw set in. The lads teeth
were closed 30 tightly that he literally
starved to death.
JACOB WELT, proprietor Of an extensive
barrel factory at Cleveland, o., has as
signed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, OK, 600.
In the Michigan Senate the Committee
on Railroads reported adversely on the
Manly Railroad Fare Reduction bill, which
had already passed the House.
Ar o meeting of Western passenger
agents at Chicago on the Sth. it was decld-
ed not to issue any more land explorers
tickets until the Interstate Commission
gives some clearer ruling.
The Quincy Rock House and Drum House
at Houghton, Mich, were struck by light
ming recently and totally destroyed. Loss.
$4,000.
AT q meeting of the transcontinental
lines in San Francisco it was decided to
obtain the authority of Eastern trunk lines
to meet such Of the Canadian Pacific and
Pacific Mail rates as might be deemed I'D
visable.
SECRETARY BRENNocK, Of the Chicago
Carpenters Union, denied that the men
proposed to strike.
HoKE, the Peoria Nll) embezzler, has
been sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary. He will appeal.
A RUSSIAN inventor named Smolineo6,
living in San Francisco, claims to have dis
covered q method of using nitro glycerine
projectiles. 1t will be officially tested.
The dome Of the great Lick observatory
at Mount Hamilton, Cal, was finished on
the 9th.
A CRoroN ID. T.) special of the 9th says:
IAN artesian well broke out last night and
is now flowing quite q stream. The same
causes which made the outbreak, opened q
seam or crack in the earth. The crack IN
the earth runs under the.Episcopal Church
and may cause considerable damage"
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road
has sold to David Sinton and Thomas J.
Emery its common stock Of the Dayton &,
Michigan road, of which it held the control
ing interest. The price was 81 100000. The
Dayton & Michigan is al miles long, run
ming from Dayton to Toledo, o. 1t is leased
in perpetuity to the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton.
TIE three-masted schooner Sunrise, of
Chicago, from Buffalo. having q cargo of
$40 tons Of coal. ran ashore in fog the
other night at Willamette, north of Chica-
60. Her crew reached shore safely.
THE Findlay, O., natural gas boom cele-
bration attracted about 5000 visitors to
that place recently. A feature of the cele-
bration was the laying of several founda-
ton stones for manufacturing enterprises.
THE shipment of through freight over
land from San Francisco for May amounted
to 81, 100000 The total is the smallest in
several years and the cause was laid to the
operations of the Interstate Commerce
law.
THE Illinois House has passed the Senate
bill forbidding the sale OF tobacco to
minors under sixteen years Of age, unless
on written order.
COPIES Of proposed Dependent Pension
bill are being mailed from Madison, Wis,
to all the Grand Army posts. Il proposes
to give SIC month to all who served three
months and were disabled in any way and
to all near relatives of dead invalid pen.
siohers.
THREE hundred and fifty union bricklay-
ers quit work, at st. Paul, Mimi, recently,
as an expression of sympathy with the
striking carpenters.
THE SOUTH